I actually have no idea how televison broadcasting works nowadays. It's "digital"now? What does that even mean? just stream stuff on the internet. I've done that for 15 years.
Not anymore magic than the world simply being a projection of your mind; you never directly experience reality, just what your mind processes reality as
Analog vs. digital is a funny comparison to make. At a real base level analog signals are fricking witch craft but you can achieve it with real basic caveman shit (look up a trench radio), whereas digital is just fricking 1's and 0's but requires fantastically advanced computer technology to produce those ones and zeros.
"channels" are now multiplexed, so that they carry information for several different channels in the same video stream.
the result: more OTA channels than ever before (at higher quality) and far more kinos
>buy nice antenna for 50 bucks >hook it up the right way and get all stations according to antenna map >nothing worth seeing on all channels >go back to pirating everything online because there's way more content
Welp that was $50 down the drain for an experiment
I pay absolutely nothing for 80 channels from the other side of the world with a month's worth of VODs. It's crazy how good distribution is now, and so sad that there's nothing to watch.
My grandpa gave me one I was hesitant at first but between metv and heroes and icons channel not to mention fear factor os and x files
I'm a satisfied man
More like people taking advantage of a great deal so they can save up money
Simply by cutting internet, eating mainly potatoes and drinking milk , and leaving the heat off in the winter (unless it's ridiculously cold) I was able to go from living paycheck to paycheck with no spending money to the opposite
Being cheap isn't always bad it's how people save money
>You pay for it with taxes
No you don't. There is no charge for ota broadcasting unless you are talking about PBS which is just government communist propaganda.
>for the rest of your life
FRICK YOU
first they made ALL analogs useless so you had to buy digital
BECAUSE THEY NEEDED the fricking frequencies for the new fricking cellphones
THEN came the fricking G
and now theres hardly any digital chans left
Don't forget how they took the spectrum, "improved" it to digital, and then reduced the quality back down to analog tier by splitting it out further so they could sell more channels.
Digital radio was the biggest fricking scam ever. Lower quality bitrates, just more of it so we can profit more by selling everyone a radio station! Fricking wienersuckers.
I actually have no idea how televison broadcasting works nowadays. It's "digital"now? What does that even mean? just stream stuff on the internet. I've done that for 15 years.
no, but see, now you can do it on your tv.
Sending 1s and 0s over the air actually makes way more sense to me than 1940s humans somehow sending video through the air
Not anymore magic than the world simply being a projection of your mind; you never directly experience reality, just what your mind processes reality as
Your mind is part of reality, doofus
reality is part of my mind, chud
always thought this was weird reasoning as "reality" by definition cannot be experienced except through sensory input. it's filtered reality
Analog vs. digital is a funny comparison to make. At a real base level analog signals are fricking witch craft but you can achieve it with real basic caveman shit (look up a trench radio), whereas digital is just fricking 1's and 0's but requires fantastically advanced computer technology to produce those ones and zeros.
Can someone explain to me how analogue worked and how digital works?
I tried reading wikipedia but I am diagnosed as moronation
"channels" are now multiplexed, so that they carry information for several different channels in the same video stream.
the result: more OTA channels than ever before (at higher quality) and far more kinos
>buy nice antenna for 50 bucks
>hook it up the right way and get all stations according to antenna map
>nothing worth seeing on all channels
>go back to pirating everything online because there's way more content
Welp that was $50 down the drain for an experiment
stations across the world have stopped broadcasting through analog, anon
Not an analog antenna just looks like one (ie based)
Why do that when you can get it for $0 with no ads and shit?
>he fell for the internet subscription israelite
I just pirate my neighbours wifi
If you are talking about pirating you still have to pay for the internet
Ops antenna gives you free television
Well, you still have to pay for the electricity to run the tv....so not free.
With pirating you have to pay for the internet and electricity so it's twice as expensive
Check mate friend
I wasn't disputing that, only your claim that watching tv with an antenna would be free.
The television is free so I'm right ..the electricity cost money though
where do you live where electricity and internet are just as expensive?
Greenland
No one lives there buddy
Pics or gtfo
i apologise
It's okay friend
based
>4 free channels
>plus emergency broadcasts
let me guess, you need more?
Zoomers will never the know the feeling of watching two channels on the same screen with a lot of static
Phones started as landlines and went wireless with cell phones. Tv started wireless and went to land lines with the internet.
TV got way better because of the internet though. Nobody watches network tv anymore.
>TV got way better better because of the internet though
Black person you're moronic
Network TV has no good shows anymore. That is true.
midwit cope
>kino
>on network television
Good one.
All you need is one channel when it's the best channel
it's also the best radio station
It's also a radio station? I'll be dipped
>not Cozi TV
You had one job.
I pay absolutely nothing for 80 channels from the other side of the world with a month's worth of VODs. It's crazy how good distribution is now, and so sad that there's nothing to watch.
Maybe nothing new but tons of good old shows
My grandpa gave me one I was hesitant at first but between metv and heroes and icons channel not to mention fear factor os and x files
I'm a satisfied man
tfw local affiliate is dropping heroes and icons in april
poor homie thread
More like people taking advantage of a great deal so they can save up money
Simply by cutting internet, eating mainly potatoes and drinking milk , and leaving the heat off in the winter (unless it's ridiculously cold) I was able to go from living paycheck to paycheck with no spending money to the opposite
Being cheap isn't always bad it's how people save money
raped homie response
Sucks they killed this app. Made local stations easier to watch.
I used one of those to watch Pokemon and Xena
Americans are fricking weird with their paid for channels. In Australia we get all tv channels and free aerials.
You don't have satellite or cable? I thought pretty much every country had those things.
Not sure what other aussie anon meant
We have free to air TV, and a paid one with a lot more channels that I guess is "satellite". It's stupidly overpriced though.
Americans get TV over the air for free, but they pay for streaming and cable instead to get more channels and content
You pay for it with taxes, the only difference is you don't have a choice and austroBlack folk don't have to pay in
>You pay for it with taxes
No you don't. There is no charge for ota broadcasting unless you are talking about PBS which is just government communist propaganda.
Taxes don't fund FOX, NBC, CBS, CW, etc.
>for the rest of your life
FRICK YOU
first they made ALL analogs useless so you had to buy digital
BECAUSE THEY NEEDED the fricking frequencies for the new fricking cellphones
THEN came the fricking G
and now theres hardly any digital chans left
Don't forget how they took the spectrum, "improved" it to digital, and then reduced the quality back down to analog tier by splitting it out further so they could sell more channels.
Digital radio was the biggest fricking scam ever. Lower quality bitrates, just more of it so we can profit more by selling everyone a radio station! Fricking wienersuckers.
that happened like 15 years ago give it a rest
my uncle used an old bike tire he found on the side of the road and it worked
those antennas never worked for me. i had to beg my dad to get a outlet for the roof antenna installed in my bedroom when i was a kid
>walk across the room
>picture starts heavily distorting
>having a shit indoor antenna